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132821.30 in reply to 132821.29
Date: 3/1/2010 12:50:45 PM
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Sacramento and Cleveland are the same size, more or less.

The link to the Nets game was just a bit of levity.

Once I scored a basket that still makes me laugh.
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Date: 3/1/2010 4:53:35 PM
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What i can tell you about Greece after 8 years that i live in Thessaloniki (2nd biggest city in Greece around 1.5M), you can find almost everywhere a court to play. Ive seen guys to play at 2 at the morning.

Even in Cyprus that basketball is not popular at all, almost every school (elementary or high school) has a court that you can go and play after the lessons. Also i think that Italy loves basketball too...

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Date: 3/1/2010 7:11:25 PM
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i don't know. i just saw the movie "idiocracy" and i wonder how many of all the basketball fans in the u.s. could actually, you know, play this game. i know they can jump up and down rythhmically, and paint blue letters on their emaciated chests, that is, when they are not turning their bodies into billboards for mom and metallica and da boyz in da hood, but i wonder how many can, you know, follow a text-based strategy game where there are no 360 degree dunks.

i don't know. this is a great, vast country, with well over 300 million people, so i suppose it is not impossible to find 20,000 people that do anything (within reason -- i doubt if we graduate 20,000 PhDs in the sciences in a decade), so i can see a day where this game reaches that level in the u.s. -- but we still won't rule bb-land, and will complain about the all advantages the little countries (i.e. the rest of the world) get.

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Date: 3/2/2010 8:39:07 AM
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A bit off-topic, but the US actually graduated over 35k new PhD's in the sciences in 2008 alone, if you are counting the life sciences, physical sciences, engineering, and social sciences. Even if you want to object to social sciences being 'real science', it still comes out to ~30k hard science PhDs.

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf10309/pdf/tab5.pdf

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Date: 3/9/2010 5:25:52 AM
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althouth USA not more team . but actually they are all strength ...

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